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Her song '1234' reached number eight on the Hot 100, and in a sure sign of its popularity, it got her invited to Sesame Street. She was alraedy a respected indie rocker, but when Feist ended up in a cool ad for the iPod Nano, she suddenly became a very big deal. Here are six songs that Apple commercials taught us to love.

But for a while, Apple's spots birthed some of the most unusual hits to find their way to the charts. This didn't last forever, of course eventually iPods got phased out in favor the iPhone, streaming services like Spotify emerged, and outlets like Netflix made it easy to avoid commercials altogether.

In the process, a new culture of discovery took hold among music fans, and by putting unknown songs into many of their ads, Apple suddenly became a mass-market purveyer of what was coming next. And the iPod, because it could hold thousands of tracks, let us carry those choices with us wherever we went. As record companies got illegal uploads of their music yanked off sharing sites, iTunes became the most reliable place to have a Napsterlike experience. Listeners quickly became accustomed to having limitless choices, so when Apple introduced both the iTunes store and, more importantly, the iPod music player, they turned that freedom into a business model. In 2007, we were still in the aftermath of Napster, the music streaming service that upended the music business and made almost every song ever recorded freely available to anyone on the internet. For a few years there, the company's spots were powerful enough to give obscure artists a serious career. Even Bob Dylan promoted his album Modern Times by singing 'Someday Baby' in a spot for the iPod.īut even more impressive than Apple's ability to land A-list musicians was their brief prowess at turning unknown artists into stars. When Coldplay launched their massive song 'Viva La Vida,' they started the buzz with an iTunes ad. In the late Aughts, their commercials for iPods and MacBooks briefly became one of the defining factors in popular music. In 1971, Coca-Cola's feel-good hippie spot ' Buy the World a Coke' featured the first version of the song that became 'I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing.' That tune was so popular that two different versions reached the top 20 just a few months apart, and years later it inspired the final moment of Mad Men.īut when it comes to making hit singles through advertising, no company compares to Apple. Back in 1969, ' We've Only Just Begun' was in a bank commercial before the Carpenters made it into a smash.

APPLE COMMERICIAL KICK IT WITH YOU ALL NIGHT TV

It's brought to you by Mark Blankenship, Primetimer's Reviews Editor and the co-host of the pop music podcast Mark and Sarah Talk About Songs.įor almost as long as there have been TV commercials, there have been hit songs that got their start in advertisements.

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Welcome to Needle Drop, our ongoing series about crucial pop music moments on TV.

Apple commericial kick it with you all night